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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
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4.15 avg rating — 441 ratings
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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4.21 avg rating — 4,969 ratings
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San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries: A Buried History
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4.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience
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4.17 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
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4.11 avg rating — 267,878 ratings
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Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 (Americans and the California Dream #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California
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4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles
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3.72 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
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3.95 avg rating — 11,285 ratings
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
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4.03 avg rating — 14,742 ratings
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The History of Alta California: A Memoir of Mexican California
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Anza Trail and the Settling of California
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3.92 avg rating — 36 ratings
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California Conquered: The Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846-1850
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4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
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3.63 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
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3.83 avg rating — 2,194 ratings
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
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4.05 avg rating — 1,719 ratings
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Paddle Wheel
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2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir
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3.71 avg rating — 3,282 ratings
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40 Watts from Nowhere: A Journey into Pirate Radio
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3.94 avg rating — 251 ratings
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Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 3)
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3.92 avg rating — 422 ratings
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The Library Book
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3.88 avg rating — 126,366 ratings
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Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000
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4.18 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871
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4.01 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Where I Was From
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3.86 avg rating — 6,600 ratings
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California: A History
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3.78 avg rating — 1,890 ratings
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The Nearest Far Away Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience
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3.91 avg rating — 277 ratings
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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
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3.96 avg rating — 326 ratings
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
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3.86 avg rating — 900 ratings
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The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
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3.95 avg rating — 753 ratings
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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
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3.75 avg rating — 240 ratings
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The Silver Dons...and the Pioneers Who Overwhelmed California (History of San Diego Vol. 3 )
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The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound
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3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Junipero Serra: The Illustrated Story of the Franciscan Founder of California's Missions
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
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4.01 avg rating — 3,650 ratings
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
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4.14 avg rating — 1,616 ratings
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Sacramento: An Illustrated History 1839-1874: From Sutter's Fort to Capital City
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
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4.23 avg rating — 1,562 ratings
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Trees in Paradise: A California History
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4.18 avg rating — 298 ratings
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The Associates: Four Capitalists Who Created California
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3.80 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of The Los Angeles Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror
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4.33 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California (Volume 22)
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3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Mining California: An Ecological History
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3.61 avg rating — 61 ratings
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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History)
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4.32 avg rating — 523 ratings
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Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913
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4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual
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3.98 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Saints and Citizens: Indigenous Histories of Colonial Missions and Mexican California
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3.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California
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4.03 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
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3.63 avg rating — 5,261 ratings
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Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
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3.60 avg rating — 2,685 ratings
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Alcatraz: The Gangster Years
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4.06 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks
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4.11 avg rating — 151 ratings
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The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
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3.84 avg rating — 902 ratings
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Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America
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4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
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4.35 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco
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3.95 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
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4.58 avg rating — 545 ratings
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The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California
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3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
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4.24 avg rating — 2,754 ratings
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¡Sí, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers
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4.25 avg rating — 28 ratings
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When Can We Go Back to America? Voices of Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
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4.36 avg rating — 180 ratings
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So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead
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4.16 avg rating — 728 ratings
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The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney
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3.84 avg rating — 466 ratings
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Janis: Her Life and Music
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4.14 avg rating — 2,903 ratings
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Gold Fleet for California: Forty-Niners from Australia and New Zealand
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El salón de los artistas exiliados en California: Salka Viertel acogió en su exilio a actores, intelectuales prominentes y personas anónimas huidas del nazismo
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From San Francisco Eastward: Victorian Theater in the American West
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California: An American History
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4.09 avg rating — 257 ratings
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The California Gold Rush: West With the Forty-Niners (First Book)
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3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Lost Amusement Parks of Southern California: The Postwar Years
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4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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We were 49ers!: Chilean accounts of the California Gold Rush
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4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene
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3.94 avg rating — 68 ratings
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
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3.96 avg rating — 11,303 ratings
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The California Missions (First Books - Examining the Past)
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945
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3.85 avg rating — 361 ratings
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To California by Sea: A Maritime History of the California Gold Rush
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3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Love, West Hollywood: Reflections of Los Angeles
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3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Wherever There's a Fight, 10th Anniversary Edition: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Creating an Orange Utopia: Eliza Lovell Tibbets and the Birth of California's Citrus Industry
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3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Native Peoples of California (North American Indian Nations)
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3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Aqua: A Story of Water and Lost Dreams
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The Big Four
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Vintage Fresno: Pictorial Recollections of a Western City
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Houseboats: Aquatic Architecture of Sausalito
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Last Girl Standing
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4.02 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Southern California: An Island on the Land
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4.25 avg rating — 345 ratings
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Last Bonanza Kings: The Bourns Of San Francisco
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3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Tales of San Francisco: "San Francisco Is Your Home," "San Francisco Kaleidoscope" and "The Streets of San Francisco"
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3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
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3.82 avg rating — 772 ratings
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The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation
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4.26 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial Series)
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Breaking Through
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4.08 avg rating — 3,471 ratings
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Time of the Bells
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Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
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3.99 avg rating — 820 ratings
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
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3.83 avg rating — 1,120 ratings
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We Are the Land: A History of Native California
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4.11 avg rating — 293 ratings
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